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Undergraduate Catalog 2025-2026

Environmental Studies Minor

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Student Learning Outcomes:

Students will be able to:

Synthesize, integrate, and apply material from multiple disciplines as it pertains to environmental studies.
Effectively research and communicate information or perspectives relevant to environmental studies.
Articulate their personal attitude and relationship to the environment.

Required Courses:

ENV 113 - NPS Introduction to Environmental Science 4.00 credits.
ENV 225 - Geographic Information Systems: Fundamentals and Applications 4.00 credits.

Two Natural and Physical Science Courses:

No laboratory requirement to fulfill minor, but courses with * have a built-in, required lab.

BIO 112 - Principles of Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity of Life 4.00 credits. *
BIO 313 - General Ecology 3.00 credits. (with or without BIO 313L )
BIO 317 - Aquatic Ecology 4.00 credits. *
BIO 218 - Marine Biology 3.00 credits.
BIO 320 - Conservation Biology 4.00 credits.
BIO 335 - Microbial Ecology and Diversity 4.00 credits. *
BIO 342 - Primates 4.00 credits.
BIO 347 - Invertebrate Zoology 4.00 credits. *
EGR 251 - Introduction to Environmental Engineering 3.00 credits.
ES 114 - NPS Geosystems: Landscapes, Oceans and Atmosphere 4.00 credits. *

Two Social Science/Humanities Courses:

EC 102 - SSC Principles of Microeconomics 4.00 credits.
IC 201 - NPS/CE Ecology and Short Fiction 4.00 credits.
PBH 111 - NPS Principles of Public Health 4.00 credits.
PH 255D - Advanced Ethics: Environmental 4.00 credits.
PS 363 - American Domestic Policy 4.00 credits.
SO 204 - SSC Population and Global Issues 4.00 credits.

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